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There are several reasons to reconsider meditation while lying down: you may may wish to look at lying down practice as just that - a practice rather than meditation. In lying practice it is easy to move into several planes and typically in trance ( nearly always ). It is easy to sync with planetary wave lengths and also acclimate to the astral planes as one is used to doing both in sleep. it is also setting oneself into the possible habit of falling asleep during what you might also be calling Meditation while it is not Meditation and associations with this concept will be muddled possibly for a very long time. The upright positions - of the spine - whether sitting on the floor or seated or standing are far better for all aspects of getting too Meditation. In Presence - Divine Natural Essence - one is in meditation - and this does typically take years to find/become in practice or otherwise. When meditating establish your awareness in the center of the head and not forward. This will reduce or eliminate boredom and restlessness and is the “proper” seat of high subtle body development (or full central axis awareness/Presence which is a broader embodiment). The later is a reference to the central axis from Perinium to just back from top of head very slightly (which is why you tuck in your chin ever so slightly in meditation posture. Lying down practices should be considered as different from a meditation posture and in discussions of one’s experiences “meditating” - or at the very least if you are speaking with someone about your meditation experiences you need to make clear at the outset that you lay down when “meditating”. So that if asked what type of meditation you do your reply is not just Vipassana with the exclusion of “while laying down”.

As a quick aside - I questioned your wording because in so many ways we use subtle wording that would suggest that spiritual practice is a somewhat deadening practice while nothing could be further from the truth. Practice move us off addictions and cravings and graspings of all sorts - and we dissipate our life forces less and less while living in a increasingly finer more enlivened calmer wholeness. Every sense becomes stronger and more vivid - it is not a retreat from sensing but not an addiction to it either. Practices are always in flux and constant change in light IS Practice rather than the slow death of ever better positioning and calcification in one’s identifications. In this Topic (Synchronicity) we are discussing a sense / seeing. To some contributors here it is poppycock mind fantasy - to some contributors it may actually be delusion in part or in whole. To some at times it is as clear as sun on their face and back. Enjoying the gift of a strawberry 🍓 in your mouth or the smell of sage in a desert 🌵 - the splendor in a museum - the smile of any kid on earth - this is entirely increased with Practice - because in practice you are increasingly more present to the moment - you have not already raced forward over the experience in the trance of endless futures and pasts.

The above quote regarding the Souce was a bit constrained: ”by dampening the senses” Was this a typo or did you mean to say it that way? 😎

These are two different practices - neither IS meditation - but they are sitting practices too meditation. In mindfulness meditation practice one’s tendency (and the general tendency in all practice of this sort) is awareness forward of the center of the head. In loving kindness meditation one naturally moves to a less forward in the head position. IN meditation awareness will Be in the center of one’s head or within the central axis of the subtle bodies.

The video is so poorly done - so completely full of holes - so intensely sideways. It is a childishly shallow bit of trash - where did you find this ? Was your pining for today’s youth a joke? Seems you are easily taken in or it was a joke. In another post you appeared to support Arnold Schwarzenegger who is totally pro electric and recently did a spoof on a car salesman that hates electric. If you really wish to trash electric - you really need to speak to a younger person who can find better stuff than this dribble.

what happens when a conservative hangs out with enough open minds: Not really off topic - synchronicity is to some as absurd as climate change is to them as well. Arnold use to epitomize the Hummer driver - now he converts hummers to electric. He continues to change and grow - in the video he plays the complete opposite of where he stands on the issues.

There is a lot of solid ground upon which science has stood very firmly - and which is now being seen through - and it has not been a pleasure to many rigidize in old “certainties”. Superstition was no jewel either. Conman can easily play either side. Both are Self conning - and statistics can be an art form. We now have Caricature Fools leading our world - but the world has never been smaller and brilliance will burn through the darkness. Light is streaming everywhere - and oddly we are becoming more comfortable with the uncomfortable task of inner practice and outer compassion.

The Dao does not follow It is shadowless

It has no footsteps and nothing to follow.

The SAND conference may be of interest - Science And Non Duality It is in the fall in San Jose Some emerging clarity in the Sciences with a heavy emphasis from physicists and cutting edge research in cognitive sciences where West is meeting East unavoidably. I think I will have lunch with the speaker in the TEDX posted by Kyoji above - 😎🙏

There is nothing to fear - that is a go-to space for nearly everyone and it is not necessary. Seeing synchronicity is a gift - it is in centeredness that it becomes apparent - and it can be crystal clear in many moments. Certainly getting caught up in it one losses ones centeredness and the mind trance takes one away from simply Being. It is not something to look for but rather appreciate. It is a way of speaking to yourself / the universe of you showing you to yourself. And there is wisdom in : “be careful what you ask for” Fools may say they see futures - but fools also assume no one does. And a slap on someone’s face as you mentioned is an idiots response. The spiritual competition along with the unfortunate Western religious traditions make even speaking about the myriad abilities we possess off limits except within conceptual frameworks or at the movies. One can see futures at times with the exactness of seeing a complete video in full living color - but it does not mean one sees all futures or being coldcocked by a “friend” for sharing something. One can be telepathic and clearly have that ability on many many levels but it does not mean one goes about reading or hearing everyone’s thoughts necessarily. One can see auras with eyes wide open as well as closed - but it does not mean one is always seeing this way - nor even that it is always instantaneous or ongoing vividly or localized. It is fine to notice things - it is fine to notice things and not label them and box them in and go hunting for them. Most of the cautions here are toward the idea of finding self fulfilling prophecy in growing theories and the propensity of the greatest addictive drive - Intermittent Positive Reinforcement Like a one arm bandit (slot machine) - it can have you sitting on detours for lifetimes. But so can our conformity to social norms (the insanity called normal). If you doubt the blindness that is out there and the extreme insanity you would probably not have found the Dao bums - though herein is not without the extraordinarily solid brick blind as well. Seeing the synchronicity as it falls upon you is a gift - to your Self. You need not “do” anything with “it” - parts of you are opening up - simply Be with that.

Many things in this have happenings at the same time but the specific changes mentioned are not happening in parallel.

Quote from OP Old Student “Each thing that must be redefined and transmuted is done so by keeping the thing that holds it still.” And numerous ”kept still” This is both correct and incorrect: There must be stillness and it must abide in stillness - stillness born of abidance in it. But it is not Kept still - it is not and cannot be an effort of keeping still - this would not be stillness - it would be tension / grasping / holding. The major changes are clearly felt - and one does not know when each step will take place. Some processes are in progress, some have reached very specific energetic changes and these are clearly felt. Prior to most of the mentioned transmutations the energies will become even more apparent than would already be the case. These energies would be very apparent generally and at all times but mounting in various ways at times.

"Perhaps the mythos isn’t as important as the energy Jesus represents - the higher aspect of ourselves, the connection to the divine." Do you see the otherness in this teaching - the otherness in your wording? In so very many ways Jesus represents Other He was not normal - he was not our brother - he was not familiar - his mother was not normal - his dad was God - his stepdad did not consummate the marriage with his wife. Many other great teachers and saints come from two normal adults having sex - the woman is not diminished nor is the father. We are not taught that we can have a connection to the divine but that we are that Divine - we cannot not have that connection - it is who we are - that we are not Otherness. The apologists all to a person may now say - "that is not what is meant" But look at what is in every aspect of all the major christian (and muslim) sects - and the apologists will find a snippit here and there and surely explain it away - but again - look at the fruits of these teachings - they inculcate Otherness - they inculcate a frown upon women - they inculcate beliefs that do not benefit mankind but divide mankind and spew competitiveness, hate and animosity. What is good is from God What is bad is from the Devil Sound too simplistic - ? Live and breath these beliefs and Other is their heartbeat. The greatest among them - rose above the religion - rose above the inculcations - and they have delivered some esoteric breath into the teachings - but they did so carefully so as not to die by their own words from the hands of their own religious leaders. The esoteric christian teachings are not those of the myths - but they are mixed in the quagmire of the necessity to hide and make vague for no reason other than not to be killed (literally) by their own. And even then - they are invariably contorted by the bigotry and inherent slight of hand that has protected them and calcified them. Finding true practice among them - within them - is like inducing a virus and hoping it will become a good thing - it is only in rising above it that one receives benefit. The very best of their "religion" are those that for all purposes have become buddists/hindu/natural - and for whom the inculcation of otherness has fallen away.

The general addiction to willfulness and yet the pull to survival and competition within DNA / physical - and the ever radiant light essence that is ever spotless and unborn. Practice is the work of loss and openness. Need - no need. Need/grasping is loss - it is futures and pasts Like the Chinese finger prison - you are free in not pulling - the frequencies of willfulness - a sound of strain and tension. It is possible to create in present - it is participation in happening - without the incredible dissipation of pasts and futures. It is possible to create in no-memory - non-inertia - evolving spontaneity. Tremendous effort is required - though it is not. The gross physical contains extraordinary inertia - you have impulses of intense pack animal instincts, emit unheard sounds that spark rivalries and pecking order reactions - much that we contribute to culture is actually deep seated DNA based instinctive reactionary mechanics. The gross physical bodies are impossibly intricate beautiful precious gifts - ladened with spitfire and cauldrons and the finest of raiment in light. Yet we are turned away from vast resources and indulge and dissipate in identified politics and petty planes of morbidity. over and over again man must bang the square peg into the round hole from ten thousand different perspectives - (practice lures us away and wanders us to the essence of light) - bang bang we pound again and now become arrogant and cynical or drown in an hypnosis of anesthetic love or self hate. The Light beckons - and we pull less identified - the music 🎵 fills the light - we have begun practice in earnest. The inclination is to improve the perspective - it is the correct mistake - a tendency to buy the bleach - “clear” ourselves, our channels, our chakras - as though we know what to do. We stay with our identity and wish to repair it on a false plane based in pasts and futures - where no repair can take place because it has never existed. It is simply cross tones of contortion. Why does it take such tremendous effort to meditate for 18 hours - one hour ? the pull to turn away Conceptually it is simple - and in fact it takes no effort - requires no effort. The subtle bodies must percolate - and those teachings of the lower planes - our religious heritages - the trappings of fear vested in futures and pasts - must fall away. Practice is not religion - no religion is practice. Sometimes it seems the entire world should take magic mushrooms - to see feel know touch Presence in non- competition - intense grounded Beingness. The Abiding Awakened State is much like this - the incredible vitality and for some energies that are far beyond consideration. The critical mass point of the falling away of identified tensions - the shift point - Awakening - Abiding Awakening - Settled Awakening - Enlightening Awakening - is immediately available - but a critical mass of relinquish has had to accumulate and in Grace Light will shower forth suddenly and without mistake.

Consider being less judgmental towards the idea of New Age. It is sorting out into the present a highly ridgidized past of hardened religions and absurd barriers to energetic realization. A certain fearlessness if a bit too easy sounding - but far more on track in open useful language than the fear based and all virgin born templates.

In the early morning hours try looking at your hand / fingers / arm next to the wall or simply in front of you. The aura can be seen quite easily with eyes closed but it is more beautiful with eyes open. It is generally clearish with rainbow coloring and with intricate magnetic movements particularly near the chakrams at the tip of the fingers and the palm center as well as the base of the palm / wrist. Neutrality is the most important aspect to seeing of this type.

For a great many these are fundamental beliefs that matter a great deal. I am not Christian (though raised Catholic, Catholic school, Alter Boy, comparative religions major, philosophy major, wife with divinity graduate degree from Harvard - looked at Christianity at one point quite a bit). I do not profess belief in any system or religion - the questions were simply to see what some of the responses would be. They are for a very long time now non-issues in a religion I have no interest in other than a curiosity and in many cases the various sects truly appear as dinosaurs and devil worship.

I am simply curious - do any Christians here not care if Jesus was not born of a virgin, was not born of immaculate conception and did not resurrect? Does (would) this essentially change the narrative, your beliefs and the teachings for you? ——- separate second question: Additionally - would it radically change your beliefs if he did not die for our sins - walk on water and feed the masses from a couple of bowls of bread and fish? (these are not trick questions and I have no agenda to argue any point - I am actually just wondering)

Regarding Catholic input on historical Christianity and current “Christian” thinking you might want to double and triple check anything coming from a currently self designated Catholic. Their “scholarly” input however nicely couched in present time inclusiveness is nearly always throughly corrupted and misleading in many subtle and not so subtle ways. They are in many ways the Fox “news” of the various larger Christian religious sects.

If you wish to read the actual words Jesus is purported to have said in any of the various bibles - the words amount to only a few dozen pages depending on the size of the font. Of those very few words - some 70% are highly suspect among educated scholarly “believers”. In other words - it is a very quick read if you read “just Jesus’ words” Complete books with authors intro and additions and explanations from 116 pages complete.

We tend to talk about “The Bible” as though it is an original work - sometimes there is reference to older versions as though they may be the original or more pure version. But the Bible of what ever version is a concoction of various bits of writing compiled centuries after the proposed existence of Jesus. Nothing what-so-ever was written by anyone regarding the existence of Jesus (of the Bible stories) for somewhere between 34 to 75 years after his approximated existence. (The name “Jesus” was among the most common names of the time) There is not one shred of evidence from the time of his proposed existence that he did in fact exist. And there are many historical writings from that time that have come to us that do not mention his existence and have neglected to articulate the killing of first born that are proposed in some of the biblical versions - unimaginable that they were not even footnotes to the historical writers living during that time. The overall highlights of his birth and death story are standard fair for nearly all previous God figures. The Sun God Mithra was previously celebrated to have been born on December 25th and was celebrated to have resurrection in Easter - these were popular European celebrations usurped by the Cristians. I am in no way arguing that Jesus did or did not exist - that zero evidence from the time of his proposed existence exists is a matter of record. And if you disagree it will be a real eye opener for you if you do due diligence in trying to prove this incorrect. The various bibles are compilations that have thrown out (and often made certain to destroy as best they could) many eligible documents and added over time new documents. ”The Bible” has only two types of proponents - Fundamentalists and Apologists: Fundamentalists are essentially literalists. Apologists are all the others that write off great portions of the various bibles and offer up the bits and pieces they are proponents of as “the essential good stuff” that floats their beliefs in the assorted works of the various bibles and the hundreds of various sects. It is generally not argued much as to what the the main character Jesus said or did not say among most followers - though nothing ascribed as said by him in those first 75 years is either unique or actually known to originated from him. The “original teaching” - prior to the add-on’s over many centuries is thin to say the least. Once one is down to just the original bits here and there ascribed to Jesus - within the first 75 years after his proposed death - you have very little to put stock in. Arguents for his existence are not unfounded - nor are arguments against. But the regard in general for any of the various cobbled together bibles are entirely suspect and easily laughable. The historicity of the Jesus mentioned in the Bible is suspect - the various bibles are entirely suspect from cover to cover.

It appears that “Awakening” is in the context of the original post a reference to optional perspectives - (individuated singularized resistance to be more exact in this case) A process to be initiated and evolved. A definition adopted by many but not a reference to the Awakening spoken of by the great spiritual teachers and sages. It is more a reference to what is described as “Yoga” in the West vs Traditional Yoga from India. Perspective calisthenics are fun and useful - as a bird moves from one limb to another. And transcendence within perspective is just this - and it is capable of tremendous flexibility or rigidizing upon one’s severity in judgements. The nature of Awakening is the falling away of perspective and position - however - those words might imply some bleached dough with no yeast - it is quite the opposite. It is certainly true that Awakening is not some final end point to transformation.

We are more driven by trance than ever before - But we are actually less in allegiance to it than ever before. We are addicted to our mind loops and the radio stations of our minds - but we are far less in allegiance to - a King - and Employer - a Career - a Tribe - a Religion than ever before. Obviously there are exceptions everywhere but for vast populations across the globe your allegiance to someone or some group is not as necessary for survival as it used to be only a century ago and the further back one goes in history the need for alliance increases exponentially. We are in general far more peaceful and far more able to change if we wish to change. (obviously there are exceptions all over the place). We are also both far more isolatable and far more accessible than ever before - we can hide from exposure and "live" in the "radio" stations in our mind free of contrary input - BUT - we can also access the world and have interchange with practically anyone everywhere. Science and Spiritual Practice are increasingly finding common ground. The Harsh "Reality" of "Awakening" is a great deal less harsh than the Reality of relative consciousness identified and in full willfulness, competition, righteousness and blind certainty. The very harsh reality in the relative of fear of a thousand futures and reluctance based on the fog of the past and pain and nails buried in our hands and feet and the spikes in our hearts - RELEASED a thousand fold upon Awakening. The "Harsh Reality of Awakening" is only truly harsh if arrogance has taken hold and one is looking down from an assumed high ground. It is true that what was once one's place in the noise of things is no longer the trancer that it once was.